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Monday 24 March 2008

Archive for the 'completely insane' Category

Burger joint’s name, logo irks LGBT group

Monday 24 March 2008 @ 3:30 pm

When the owners of Quickie Burger and Dogs chose their logo, they thought it would make patrons crave an order of chili cheese fries. But the logo, a busty woman in a tight shirt straddling a hamburger, has drawn criticism from campus groups. “I have a problem that you take a women riding a hamburger and you put it next to the word ‘quickie,’ ” Kolby Roberts said. “It just seems like it’s not putting a good message out there for the objectification of women.”

Comments (0) | Posted in Political Correctness, completely insane

Network Solutions Censors Anti-Koran Web Site

Sunday 23 March 2008 @ 2:13 pm

A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended.

Comments (0) | Posted in Political Correctness, completely insane, religion, speech

Bashir urges attacks on ‘infidel’ Australians

Sunday 23 March 2008 @ 2:09 pm

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to “beat up” Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs.

Comments (0) | Posted in completely insane, outrage, religion, terrorism

No new trial in rape; it’d end the same, DA says

Saturday 15 March 2008 @ 1:05 pm

Moses-El, now 52, was convicted despite the lack of physical evidence. The victim had named three other suspects before she told prosecutors that her attacker’s identity came to her in a dream.

Comments (0) | Posted in completely insane, crime + punishment, sex and metropolis

Crotch grabbing a crime in Italy

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 1:05 pm

Arguably a lot of men do it. Be it behind closed doors or in full public view, crotch grabbing by some Jamaican men is seen by many as a habitual pastime where our males find some time in the day to adjust their nether regions - at times in full view of all and sunder.

Comments (0) | Posted in completely insane, crime + punishment, sex and metropolis

ABC News: Spitzer’s “risk-taking” tied to an improperly working “pre-frontal lobe”

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 12:59 pm

Video: ABC news’ apologetics department tests the shaky limb of psycho-babble

Comments (0) | Posted in Media Obfuscation, Skank Culture, completely insane, counterPULSE, crime + punishment, humor, sex and metropolis, society, weird science

Disturbing New Photos From Abu Ghraib

Thursday 28 February 2008 @ 1:24 pm

NSFW: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Comments (0) | Posted in International Politics, completely insane, human nature, misconduct, outrage

Internet sex auction sparks paternity row

Saturday 16 February 2008 @ 9:27 pm

BERLIN (Reuters) - A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who’s the father.

Comments (0) | Posted in Skank Culture, completely insane, sex and metropolis

Why do the OU and Israel’s rabbinate condone barbarity?

Friday 15 February 2008 @ 10:33 am

In a Sept. 25, 1998 article in Haaretz magazine Yossi Bar-Moha gave this eye-witness account of the process: “One of the local workers grabs a back leg of the bull and lashes it to an iron chain. The door is raised again and the bull is yanked violently upward by the chain attached to his back leg. The animal is now dangling in the air - its immense weight held by one foot, its head down.

Comments (0) | Posted in completely insane

Cops: Mom Gave 11-Year-Old Daughter Beer, Marijuana as Birthday Gift

Friday 8 February 2008 @ 10:49 am

An Indiana woman was arrested Wednesday on charges she gave her 11-year-old daughter alcohol and marijuana as a birthday gift, according to reports.

Comments (0) | Posted in Skank Culture, child abuse, completely insane, crime + punishment, society